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...treaty that formed the cornerstone of all nuclear arms-control agreements between Washington and Moscow. And although President Bush managed to shift European thinking from whether to how the U.S. would deploy a missile defense system, the focus of that "how" was still fixed on treaties and international consensus. The reason the Bush administration is "consulting" Russia is that approval of missile defense - by constituencies ranging from European NATO members to the Senate Democrats - hinges upon getting Moscow's blessing...
...where he earned his medical degree. Now he will be scrutinized by a much larger audience. He knows that if he stacks his panel with stem-cell opponents, it will be too easily dismissed; if he brings in a broad range of views, he may have trouble reaching a consensus. But Kass believes consensus is overrated. He prefers the prickly, the individual, the brilliant. It will be great fun to watch him work in Washington...
...departure for Ireland, Vladimiroff handed her a letter--co-signed by 127 of Mount St. Benedict's 128 active nuns--stating that she would not relay the command. The grounds: Mount St. Benedict is run on a model of "co-responsibility" rather than a "superior-subordinate" model, and prayerful consensus did not support the travel ban. "Silencing is inappropriate. It's patronizing and treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself to be complicit" in it. Several other female Benedictine monasteries added their support. Thirty-five of Mount St. Benedict's younger nuns pledged that if Chittister...
Blue-ribbon presidential commissions fall into two very different personality groups. Type A commissions are made up of reasonable people who disagree about some complicated problem and then struggle to reach consensus. These folks spend months in tortuous public hearings, draft carefully hedged reports, and often wind up utterly deadlocked. Type B panels avoid that outcome by being rigged from the start--stacked with people who already agree on What Is to Be Done yet still go through the motions of assessing the problem. Their final reports are clear and sweeping but usually dead on arrival, because all the opponents...
There was consensus, however, over the Seeds of Simplicity proposal to resurrect household chores. "My kids have friends who have never had to help empty a dishwasher," said Erin Fulham. "Once a week now, my 11-year-old makes dinner, and my eight-year-old does the laundry...